I have a credit card where I earn points for spending money, and even more points when using the card to pay for trains tickets. In my previous job I commuted by train every day, so I accumulated quite some points over time. The points can be exchanged for a large variety of items. This winter, a sled […]
There seems to be a breakthrough for the students I supervise on their bachelor thesis. They have been able to modify contents of a USB memory stick by directly accessing the data stored in sectors. It has taken a while for them to learn, but after thoroughly studying specifications and MSDN documentation, they managed to do […]
This week I received quite an expensive chocolate bar. I had set up a bet with one of my former colleagues at eQ-3 Entwicklung as regards team size counted as number of permanent staff by the end of the year. I had contended that growth would be below the optimistic three additional developers as part […]
„Your most valuable resource is time – that is true even today.“ It was one of the days I attended a lecture on complexity theory held by Prof. Lengauer, and he reminded his audience of how important it was to use our time as students (and after graduation) wisely. Of course, wisely meant that we should […]
I finally got my removal goods to Norway. Technically, I got furniture and lots of boxes delivered to my house already two weeks ago. Legally, this should not have happened. When I selected a moving company to get my stuff from Germany to Norway some months ago, I chose one that claimed experience with removals […]